Nigel Farage is expected to unveil plans to restore the two-child cap to allow Reform to slash 5p off the price of a pint.
Reform had promised to scrap the two-child benefit limit, but now the party intends to funnel the support to the most vulnerable into slashing prices in pubs.
The Reform UK leader is expected to unveil a five-point support package for pubs, which will also reportedly include slashing beer duty by ten per cent and implementing a staggered business rate abolition for every boozer. It is estimated that lifting the limit, which was introduced by the Tories in 2017, will lift 450,000 children out of poverty by 2029.
Mr Farage claims his plan to “save Britain’s pubs” will be cost neutral as £3billion in savings are made by reinstating the two-child benefit limit, except in working households comprising British citizens.
Reform pledge to reduce VAT for hospitality
Lee Anderson is now talking about what pubs used to be like, and saying pub culture might mean nothing to the “prosecco drinkers” in Westminster.
The first of the five points is reducing VAT to ten per cent for the hospitality sector.
Lee Anderson promises five-point plan for pubs
Lee Anderson is now on stage, talking about the importance of pubs, and why he likes his local. He says he has a friend who drinks a lot who tells “four lies a minute”, and “should be a politician”.
The former Tory MP says Reform UK have a five-point plan to support British pubs.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves writes for The Mirror
Ahead of the press conference, here’s the Chancellor on the importance of scrapping the two-child benefit limit, and her vow to go further.
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Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson are set to appear at a Reform press conference on pubs, where they will outline how they would restore the two-child benefit cap to fund more support for boozers.